Thursday, October 31, 2013

Lincoln’s
military policy of total war not only influenced Grant and Sherman, but
also Sheridan who devastated Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. The latter
told Bismarck during the Franco-Prussian War that “You know how to hit
an enemy as no other army does, but you have not learnt how to
annihilate him.” The author does not mention that the burning of
Washington was in retaliation for New York militiamen under General
McClure looting and burning the Canadian town of Newton (now Niagara on
the Lake) in 1814.

“In
North America, European influence had always been predominant and one
would therefore expect to find warfare conducted there more or less in
accordance with European standards. The facts, however, do not confirm
this reasonable expectation. Thus, the crowning episode of the war of
1812-14 between Britain and the United States was when a British column .
. . marched inland to Washington and there burnt the Capitol, the White
House and various other public buildings.

Most
of the wars in which the white settlers in North America had been
involved before 1861 were with the Red Indians . . . classic examples of
harsh and rudimentary primary warfare [and] . . . Lapses into barbaric
practices were consequently frequent.

Hence
it is not surprising that the first great historic break with European
practice should have taken place in the sanguinary American Civil War
(or “The War Between the States,” as the Southerners still prefer to
designate it). The military precedents in the United States were nearly
all in the pattern of primary warfare. Even President Lincoln himself
had fought briefly in his youth against the Red Indians and he exerted a
dominant influence on Northern military policy and strategy.

It
was the Northern or Federal armies which produced this historic
reversion to primary or total warfare. The North had endured much
bellicose contact with the Red Indians and was much less influenced by
Europe than the South. The latter was culturally a European colony
until after the Civil War, Southern children were educated in Europe,
and the Southern aristocracy travelled widely in Europe. Southern
soldiers were very familiar with European military ideals.

General
Robert E. Lee . . . was the perfect example of Southern military
chivalry in complete accord with the European ideals of civilized
warfare. It is for this reason Professor T. Harry Williams accurately
calls Lee “the last of the great old-fashioned generals.” His
“old-fashioned” trait was his fidelity to the European code of civilized
warfare.

There
has been a traditional habit of saddling the responsibility for the
Northern departure from civilized warfare on . . . Sherman . . . This is
quite unjust. Sherman only conducted the most dramatic and devastating
example of the strategy which was laid down by President Lincoln
himself and was faithfully followed by General Ulysses S. Grant as
commander in chief of the Northern armies. That Lincoln determined the
basic lines of Northern military strategy has been well established . . .

[and] Grant only efficiently applied Lincoln’s military policy in the
field. Hence it is apparent that Sherman was only carrying out
effectively the military policy which Lincoln and Grant had adopted.

[After
expelling the inhabitants of Atlanta and destroying homes, factories
and mills, Sherman laid] waste the country as he went. “Until we can
repopulate Georgia, it is useless to occupy it,” he wrote to
headquarters . . . [and] turned northwards along the Atlantic coast to
Charleston. He made no secret of his intentions.

“I
sincerely believe,” he wrote General Halleck in Washington, “that whole
United States would rejoice to have my army turned loose on South
Carolina, to devastate that State in the manner we have done in
Georgia.” To which Halleck replied with admiring approval and the
expression of a hope that “should you capture Charleston, by some
accident the place may be destroyed.”

[Sherman replied] “The truth is, the whole army is burning with insatiable desire to wreak vengeance upon South Carolina.”

To
do him justice, Sherman was no simple-minded barbarian carried away by
the heat of the moment; nor was he vindictive against a people who
practiced Negro slavery. On the eve of the War he wrote his brother
that: “I would recoil from a war when the Negro is the only question.”

The
Federal methods of total warfare and the arguments which were used to
justify them aroused curiously little interest at the time in Europe.
But, after all, they reasoned, what better could be expected of
colonials led by militia officers whose only training had been wars with
Red Indians. No lesson was to be learnt by European professional
soldiers from such disorderly proceedings, least of all the hoary truth
that one way of winning a war was to terrorize the enemy civilian
population.”

(Advance to Barbarism, The Development of Total Warfare, F.J.P. Veale, Appleton, 1953, pp. 120-125)

Retired Army Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady, recipient of the U.S. military’s highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, as well as other top retired officers, say President Obama’s agenda is decimating the morale of the U.S. ranks to the point members no longer feel prepared to fight or have the desire to win.

“There is no doubt he (Obama) is intent on emasculating the military and will fire anyone who disagrees with him” over such issues as “homosexuals, women in foxholes, the Obama sequester,” Brady told WND.

“They are purging everyone, and if you want to keep your job, just keep your mouth shut,” one source told WND.

Not only are military service members being demoralized and the ranks’ overall readiness being reduced by the Obama administration’s purge of key leaders, colonels – those lined up in rank to replace outgoing generals – are quietly taking their careers in other directions.

Retired Army Lt. Gen. William G. “Jerry” Boykin, who was with Delta Force and later Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence under President George W. Bush, says it is worrying that four-star generals are being retired at the rate that has occurred under Obama.

“Over the past three years, it is unprecedented for the number of four-star generals to be relieved of duty, and not necessarily relieved for cause,” Boykin said.

“I believe there is a purging of the military,” he said. “The problem is worse than we have ever seen.”

With the capitulation and betrayal of the American People by Congress Wednesday, for every Patriot, this is the last straw, or should be. I have heard enough of the drivel from cowardly men and women that we should work within the broken system, work by the rules of a rigged game, to extradite ourselves from the Tyranny that has us in its grips.

"Follow the law, elect good men to office, work within the system, don't be a rock-thrower."

Are you BLEEPING kidding me?

We are slowly being subjugated, bit by bit, little by little. Our leaders in Congress have failed us, nay betrayed us, for their own personal gain. They exempt themselves from laws that they force upon the rest of us, and today that betrayal has reared its ugly hydra-head once again in a monstrosity that lays over anything done so far.

The RINOs in Congress have voted to betray the American public once again.

WHEN IS IT ENOUGH PATRIOTS? WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO GET YOU OFF YOUR BACKSIDES AND RISE UP AGAINST TYRANNY? WHAT DOES IT TAKE, THE MURDER OF YOUR FAMILY ON YOUR FRONT LAWN?

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The state Supreme Court
on Thursday reversed a jury's wrongful death verdict against the state
stemming from the 2007 killing of 32 students and faculty at Virginia Tech in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

The
justices ruled in the case of two students whose families argued that
they might have survived the rampage if the Blacksburg campus had been
alerted earlier to the gunman's initial shootings at a dormitory. Erin Nicole Peterson, Julia Kathleen Pryde and 28 other people were killed nearly three hours later in Norris Hall, a classroom building.

But the justices agreed with the state — that there was no way to anticipate the deadly intentions of student Seung-Hui Cho, who killed himself after the killings.

"Based
on the limited information available to the commonwealth at the time
prior to the shootings in Norris Hall, it cannot be said that it was
known or reasonably foreseeable that students in Norris Hall would fall
victim to criminal harm," the court wrote. "Thus, as a matter of law,
the commonwealth did not have a duty to protect students against third
party criminal acts."

One of the people killed was the robbery suspect, police have said. His name has not been released.

Family members have identified Domnick Floyd, 23, of Grand Rapids, as
the second victim at the shooting scene. They said that police told
them that Floyd was picked out for robbery by others after he attended a
hip-hop concert at the Intersection nightclub.

Grand Rapids Police have not identified anyone involved in the shootings.

For over three years, Gun Owners of America has been
warning Americans about the dangers of ObamaCare.While more and more Americans continue to learn about the
unintentional “glitches” populating the ObamaCare website,
they are also discovering the INTENTIONAL dangers the new law
poses for gun owners.The news about these problems continues to spread, and
other groups continue to forward our information. Just
recently, the Tea Party Unity ran a GOA article entitled,
“ObamaCare Threatens Gun Owners Rights.”Indeed, ObamaCare will take the gun ban that has disarmed
more than 150,000 military veterans and expand it to
potentially cover millions and millions of additional
Americans.Having said that, if you or a member of your family has a
condition that requires serious medical attention, fine.
There’s no moral imperative preventing you from trying to
benefit from Obama’s health care “house of cards,” while it
lasts.But don’t buy insurance just because the President tells
you to and threatens to fine you if you don’t. First,
many believe that this isn’t going to happen. But even
if it did, consider this.President “Above-the-Law” Obama has now waived ObamaCare
for everyone except for us -- the “little guys.” But it’s
going to victimize us, in spades.ObamaCare, as drafted, purported to protect some, but not
all, of our Second Amendment rights. Yet Obama pretty
much showed his hands with Executive Action 16, where he
encouraged doctors to ask kids and their parents about guns
and enter that information into a federally run database.Are you ready to have a government bureaucrat decide if you
may own a gun or not, with no day in court? Once doctors
start entering your personal information into the medical
database, there will be nothing to stop the FBI from using
your medical information to deny you the right to purchase a
firearm.We thought we had barred this danger with language that was
inserted in Harry Reid’s manager’s amendment (of the ObamaCare
bill) at our insistence. But it has now become clear
that ObamaCare is “the law of the land” only when it suits
Barack Obama’s purposes:* ObamaCare has provisions that penalize unions and other
Obama supporters. Waived by Obama for many of them.* ObamaCare’s prohibition on subsidies threatened Congress
and its staff. Waived (illegally) by Obama.* ObamaCare imposed a mandate on businesses, beginning
January 1, 2014. Waived illegally by Obama.* ObamaCare required states to provide Medicaid for a
greater percentage of the poor and middle class. Overturned by
the Supreme Court.* ObamaCare required Obama to have an exchange system up
and running by October 1. That didn’t happen.The bottom line? Obama can’t force you to comply with
ObamaCare, if he’s not going to comply with it himself.But, you say, the Supreme Court upheld the
constitutionality of the law in NFIB v. Sebelius.
Yeah, but remember McCain-Feingold, the unconstitutional
campaign finance restrictions on pro-gun speech? The court
initially upheld the law’s constitutionality IN THEORY. But
years later, when an advocacy group challenged the law, the
Court found that the law was largely unconstitutional IN
PRACTICE.There will be legal foundations lining up at the courthouse
door to establish that ObamaCare can’t penalize Americans in
2014. Gun Owners Foundation will join in their efforts. And,
if necessary, we may bring the suit ourselves.Obviously, we don’t have a crystal ball, but it may very
well be that the launch of ObamaCare will continue to be so
disastrous, that the President may very well waive the mandate
(and the penalties) for the first year.But even if he doesn’t, there comes a point when, like our
Founding Father Patrick Henry, we have to decide if we are
just going to submit to tyranny or if we are going to
resist: “For my own part, I consider it as nothing less
than a question of freedom or slavery… But as for me, give me
liberty or give me death!”Of course, we are not talking about resisting on the
battlefield (the way Henry was). No, our resistance must
come in answering this question: Am I going to sign up
for -- and take part in -- an unconstitutional mandate that
perpetuates tyranny and advances gun control? Or am I
willing to resist tyranny, and even be willing to pay a fine,
on the chance that Obama doesn’t waive the penalties for
failing to participate in ObamaCare?This is exactly what every member of the staff in Rep.
Steve Stockman’s office has done. All in his office
recently voted to reject enrolling in the D.C. exchange.“ObamaCare is a failing Ponzi scheme that can only work if
it overcharges young people and denies care to older people,”
Rep. Stockman said. “ObamaCare is not health care and we
shouldn’t bail it out with tax dollars.”ACTION ITEMS:1) Don’t buy ObamaCare just because Obama threatens
you. (Again, we’re not trying to dissuade you from
benefiting from Obama’s collapsing structure if you or a
member of your family has serious medical needs. Enjoy it
while it lasts.)2) Click here to email your Representatives and Senators, urging
them to work towards repealing, defunding or delaying
ObamaCare (as the budget negotiations continue over the next
few months).

Conservatives point to the Obamacare website exploiting a
strange loophole in the National Voting Rights Act to question whether
the President's signature healthcare law had a political motive, as
well.

Several election integrity activists have alleged that the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), or Obamacare, does not
appear to have been an effort to conduct healthcare reform to fix what
was described in 2009 and 2010 as a broken healthcare system.

The law passed Congress with just Democratic Party support. Instead
of being an honest attempt to fix America’s healthcare woes, “I think
[it] is the biggest voter registration fraud scheme in the history of
the world,” said Gregg Phillips, the founder of the election integrity
group Voters Trust, in an interview with Breitbart News
Wednesday morning.

"Another war is coming!"

A controversial 600-plus page manual used by the military to train
its Equal Opportunity officers teaches that "healthy, white,
heterosexual, Christian" men hold an unfair advantage over other races,
and warns in great detail about a so-called "White Male Club."

“Simply put, a healthy, white, heterosexual, Christian male receives
many unearned advantages of social privilege, whereas a black,
homosexual, atheist female in poor health receives many unearned
disadvantages of social privilege,” reads a statement in the manual
created by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI).

The manual, which was obtained by Fox News, also instructs troops to
“support the leadership of people of color. Do this consistently, but
not uncritically,” the manual states.

“Happy Halloween and Happy Holidays Neighbor!” opens the letter written by a Fargo woman going by the name Cheryl. Cheryl plans on handing out copies of this letter to trick-or-treaters she judges to be fat.

Right off the bat you can tell she’s a liberal because she threw in “Happy Holidays,” even though it’s only Halloween. She doesn’t want to offend the Wiccan children, evidently. (On second thought, perhaps it is merely a matter of safety not to offend the children of witches.)

The letter continues: “You are probably wondering why your child has this note; have you ever heard the saying, ‘It takes a village to raise a child’?”

I’ve heard that saying. It’s an old proverb originating from the collectivist minds of African tribesmen, made fashionable by communist Hillary Clinton in her 1996 book, and advocated creepily this past spring in a TV spot for MSNBC in which Melissa Harris-Perry told the public in no uncertain terms that your children, sprung from your loins, belong to everybody.

“I am disappointed in ‘the Village’ of Fargo Moorhead, West Fargo,” writes Cheryl the creepy neighbor. “You [sic] child is, in my opinion, moderately obese and should not be consuming sugar and treats to the extent of some children this Halloween season.”

Thank You for your incredible generosity!

Dear friends of HSLDA,

On occasion, I am absolutely floored by the outpouring of support for
Generation Joshua’s homeschool students. This last week has been one of
those times.

Last week, I asked you to consider supporting Generation Joshua,
through the HSLDA VA PAC, in its efforts to elect Ken Cuccinelli, a
homeschool dad, to become the next Governor of Virginia. As you know,
we help equip and educate thousands of homeschool students every year by
giving them hands on experience in citizen advocacy. This investment
pays long term dividends by equipping the next generation of Americans
as citizens, as well as electing a good man to office.

As a result of your incredible efforts, we have raised over $250,000.00 since last week.

I am humbled by your generosity and inspired by your dedication. I
did not think it was possible, but your commitment to the next
generation and to liberty has left me speechless.

Earlier this week, we had several GenJ students ask us how much money
we still needed. We told them that we needed roughly $10K, and they
decided to raise it here.
I want to recognize their efforts. That sort of can do, never-give-up
attitude is what makes Generation Joshua’s students so incredible!
We’ve crunched the numbers to determine a more precise amount, and we
still need $13,764.97 (as of writing). If you want to partner with us
in this great effort, we would greatly appreciate it. You can donate at www.hslda.org/vapac.

The polls are tightening
and the race is going to come down to which side can get their
political base out to vote. Generation Joshua has the well-deserved
reputation of being the best conservative get-out-the-vote operation in
the nation, and it is needed now. As hundreds of students move into
this operation, I ask you lift them (and our administrative staff) up in
your prayers. We can’t win the ground game of politics without God’s
blessing on these efforts. Please pray for us throughout the next five
days. We need it.
Sincerely,

On Sunday, October 3rd, my boyfriend Glen and I decided to take a ride
from Missoula, MT Ovando, MT. On our way back, we headed south on
hwy 200. I was looking around at the gorgeous scenery when Glen started
to slow down as he saw a truck stopped in front of us. We stopped
behind the truck and saw a bull elk approach the truck. The person in
the truck must have had some food because the elk jumped up on his hind
legs and peered in to the drivers window. (I have that on video as
well)

Then the elk jumped down and started to approach us. There were
two actually. One was a bit smaller and had different looking antlers.
I am not much of a hunter so I don't know why they appeared different
than the other. I was surprised that the elk came so close to us and I
could feel a great deal of tension between us and the animal. I am
willing to bet that if Glen hadn't hit the throttle when he had, that
elk would have jumped up on us. The elk chased us for a while and I
don't know when he would have stopped hadn't I told Glen to lose it. I
didn't want the animal to chase us on the road and put it in any danger
so losing it seemed appropriate. I had enough excitement for one day!

With the war against self-defense currently being waged via the Democrat-led attack on “Stand Your Ground” laws, it’s important to revisit Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s words from McDonald v Chicago (2010): “Individual self-defense is ‘the central component’ of the 2nd Amendment right.”

Rogers: I would argue the fact that
we haven’t had any complaints come forward with any specificity arguing
that their privacy has been violated, clearly indicates, in ten years,
clearly indicates that something must be doing right. Somebody must be
doing something exactly right.

Vladeck: But who would be complaining?

Rogers: Somebody who’s privacy was violated. You can’t have your privacy violated if you don’t know your privacy is violated.

Vladeck: I disagree with that. If a tree falls in the forest, it makes a noise whether you’re there to see it or not.

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Bought in 2009, currency's rise in value saw small investment turn into enough to buy an apartment in a wealthy area of Oslo

The meteoric rise in bitcoin has meant that within the space of four years, one Norwegian man’s $27 investment turned into a forgotten $886,000 windfall.

Kristoffer Koch invested 150 kroner ($26.60) in 5,000 bitcoins in
2009, after discovering them during the course of writing a thesis on
encryption. He promptly forgot about them until widespread media
coverage of the anonymous, decentralised, peer-to-peer digital currency in April 2013 jogged his memory.

Bitcoins are stored in encrypted wallets secured with a private key,
something Koch had forgotten. After eventually working out what the
password could be, Koch got a pleasant surprise:

"It said I had 5,000 bitcoins in there. Measuring that in today's rates it's about NOK5m ($886,000)," Koch told NRK.

The Department of Homeland Security
is increasing its preparations for domestic unrest by spending half a
million dollars on fully automatic pepper spray launchers and
projectiles that are designed to be used during riot control situations.

In an announcement of a no bid contract posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website,
the federal agency signals its intention to purchase nearly 240,000
pepper spray projectiles, 100 pepper spray launchers, as well as 36
“riot expansion kits”.

The PepperBall TAC-700 pepper spray
launcher “features full auto, semi-auto, or 3 round burst providing up
to 700 rounds per minute,”according to the company which
will provide the DHS with the weapons. It is also “accurate to 60 feet
with area saturation up to 150 feet.” The weapon is routinely used in riot control situations around the world.

According
to a video demonstration, the TAC-700 has a “strong psychological
influence” on the people it is being used against because it is so loud
and sounds like an automatic machine gun.

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened. ~Anatole France

If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. ~Chief Seattle of the Suquamish Tribe, letter to President Franklin Pierce

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. ~St. Francis of Assisi

***********************************People who love their pets consider them part of the family and as such, many of us treat them as though they are our "children." Dogs and cats are special four legged creatures to many of us, and we cherish them. The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and UN Agenda 21 are working together to destroy not only America's agricultural industries, but also the ownership of our pets.

How do you destroy agriculture, including the pet industry, in America?

The jury watched in horror Monday as the prosecution played a
surveillance camera video of 76-year-old grandmother and convenience
store clerk Nancy Harris consumed in flames after being doused in
lighter fluid and ignited by a monster robbing a Garland, Tex. Fina Whip
In of petty cash.

“She died in hospital five days after she and her family decided to turn off life support,” Mail Online reported.
There’s no need to repeat that report here. Go and read it, grasp what
confessed murderer Matthew Johnson did to this poor woman, and then
watch the video. Try to imagine her agony and her terror, and what her
survivors have been forced to live through and with. Go ahead and get
sick and then furious. It’s the reaction decent people would have.

Then compare the results here to another Fina station robbery attempt, this time in Shreveport, La.
“[T]he employee in the back of the store diverted attention away long
enough to give Amin's little brother Fayez the moment he needed behind
the counter to reach down and grab their 9-millimeter handgun,” KSLA 12 reported.

An Akron, Ohio music teacher at a 52% Black high school was suspended after posting Facebook comments condemning the criminal behavior of certain "ghetto" trick-or-treaters that annually migrate to his neighborhood. David Spondike, who has been teaching in the district since 1998, had stark words for this year's Halloween visitors.

According to Ohio.com:

The initial post read: "I don't mind if you come from the ghetto to trick or treat. But when you whip out your teeny [genitalia] and [urinate] on the telephone pole in front of my front yard and a bunch of preschoolers and toddlers, you can take your [N-word] ass back where it came from. I don't have anything against anyone of color, but [racial slur] stay out."

He then says he "welcomes people who come from dangerous neighborhoods to mine, so their children can safely trick or treat. I feel sorry that they feel they need to do so, but they have been coming here for years."

But Spondike then cautions against people who come to his neighborhood and act unruly.

Several men abducted a three-year-old Saudi girl and took turns in
raping her before dumping the child near a hospital in a serious
condition.

Disclosing the crime on Monday, police said they had arrested three
suspects and two women and that more could be arrested in connection
with the rape.

Doctors at the hospital in the Western Red Sea port of Jeddah said
the child was found crying and in serious condition in front of the
hospital on Ramadan 13, adding that she is still in the intensive care
unit struggling for her life.

“She has been raped violently by some men. She was found crying of
excruciating pain as her body was full of bruises and her sensitive
parts were ruptured,” hospital manager Mohammed Ali said, quoted by the
Saudi Arabic language daily Okaz.

Song of the Confederate Irish Brigade

Music: David Kincaid Song of the Irish Brigade

Lyrics:

Oh, not now for songs of a nation's wrongs,not the groans of starving labor;Let the rifle ring and the bullet singto the clash of the flashing sabre!

There are Irish ranks on the tented banksof Columbia's guarded ocean;And an iron clank from flank to flanktells of armed men in motion.

And frank souls there clear true and bareTo all, as the steel beside them,Can love or hate withe the strength of Fate,Till the grave of the valiant hide them.Each seems to be mailed Ard Righ,whose sword's avenging gloryMust light the fight and smite for Right,Like Brian's in olden story!

With pale affright and panic flightShall dastard Yankees base and hollow,Hear a Celtic race, from their battle place,Charge to the shout of "Faugh-a-ballaugh!"By the sould above, by the land we loveHer tears bleeding patienceThe sledge is wrought that shall smash to naughtThe brazen liar of nations.

The Irish green shall again be seenas our Irish fathers bore it,A burning wind from the South behind,and the Yankee rout before it!O'Neil's red hand shall purge the land-Rain a fire on men and cattle,Till the Lincoln snakes in their own cold lakesPlunge from the blaze of battle.

The knaves that rest on Columbia's breast,and the voice of true men stifle;we'll exorcise from the rescued prize-Our talisman, the rifle;For a tyrant's life a bowie knife!-Of Union knot dissolvers,The best we ken are stalwart men,Columbiads and revolvers!

Whoe'er shall march by triumphal archWhoe'er may swell the slaughter,Our drums shall roll from the CapitolO'er Potomac's fateful water!Rise, bleeding ghosts, to the Lord of HostsFor judgement final and solemn;Your fanatic horde to the edge of the swordIs doomed line, square, and column!

Obamacare, by its very nature, can't make healthcare more affordable and
"defies the whole concept" of its key goal, says billionaire
entrepreneur Ken Langone.

Many experts say healthy young people must sign up for health insurance
en masse in order for Obamacare to be successful. If more people, who
don't need as much healthcare as older generations, buy insurance, they
will bring down insurance costs.

"You're not going to bring 35 million more people into the pool for care
and say, 'We're going to do it cheaper.' We're living longer. The
longer we live, the more healthcare we need.

"Those kids can now wait for a condition, a pre-existing condition, and
now say, 'I want insurance,'" Langone argued. "The risk to the insurance
company goes up exponentially because the kid is coming in unhealthy,
not healthy."

“No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health-care plan, you will be able to keep your health-care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.”

Because of recent developments contrary to the promises in this quote, whoever said those words, it can be said of him that he was either wrong or lying; one or the other and nothing else.

Those developments are approximately, and only thus far, 1.5 million people having been dropped from their private health-insurance plans: 800,000 in New Jersey; 279,000 in California; 300,000 in Florida; 370,000 in Pennsylvania; 76,000 from D.C., Virginia, and Maryland; and these numbers are only rising.

On March 2, 1864, William Littlepage was searching the pockets of a dead
Union officer just outside of Richmond, VA. But instead of a
pocketwatch or other baubles, Littlepage discovered two mysterious
documents. These papers, now known as the Dahlgren Papers, cast light on
a plot designed to bring an end to the Confederate States of America.
Were Union leaders planning to assassinate President Jefferson Davis?

The Dahlgren Affair?

By March 2, 1864, the Union had taken control of the Civil War and
Confederate hopes of victory seemed increasingly dim. Ulysses S. Grant
was just a week away from taking over the responsibilities of Commanding
General of the United States Army. And President Lincoln, along with
his top generals, had reached the conclusion that the only way to break
the South was to wage total war.
It was with this backdrop that 13-year old Littlepage found himself
searching the dead body of Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, who’d been killed
earlier that day in a failed raid on Richmond, VA. After discovering the
documents, Littlepage took them to his teacher, Edward Halbach. Halbach
quickly examined the papers and realized he had a veritable bomb in
front of him.

The papers described a plan to raid and torch Richmond, VA. The idea
for the attack had originated from Brigadier General Judson Kilpatrick.
Kilpatrick was known as “Kill-Cavalry” due to his willingness to
sacrifice his own troops as well as Confederate troops in order to
achieve his goals. The plan was for Dahlgren’s cavalry to enter the city
from the south. After stopping to free Union prisoners and meet up with
Kilpatrick, the enlarged force would descend upon Richmond in order to “destroy and burn the hateful city.”

“It is a very significant fact that the adversaries of the trend
toward more government control describe their opposition as a fight
against Washington and against Berne, i.e., against centralization. It
is conceived as a contest of states’ rights versus the central power.”

“I saw in States’ rights the only availing check upon the absolutism
of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.”

Letter from Lord Acton to General Robert E.Lee, Nov. 4, 1866

Do Silicon Valley entrepreneurs want to bring back slavery, perhaps
using the newly enslaved to assemble computers and other electronics?
One Anand Giridharadas, writing in the October 28 New York Times,
would have you think so. His opening sentences are: “First the slave
South, now this. Is Silicon trying to secede from America?

Giridharadas is apparently horrified that a Silicon Valley
entrepreneur named Balaji Srinivasan gave a speech at Stanford
University recently in which he advocated “seceding from [American]
society” and its looting and over-bloated welfare/warfare state.

As is typical of all statists, inside and outside of government,
whenever the “S” word is mentioned Giridharadas, like all the rest,
attempts to effectively censor all discussion of secession by
insinuating that taking the idea seriously reveals that one must
secretly condone slavery. Or at least be an apologist for the
Confederacy, an institution that has been demonized by the American
state like no other for the past 160 years. (The same American state
that condoned and enforced slavery with Fugitive Slave Clauses and Acts from the end of the Revolutionary War (1783) until 1866).

The polls have been all over the place this month.
Thus it’s difficult to gauge exactly which direction the political
headwinds are shifting in Virginia. But I'm beginning to wonder: Could
Cuccinelli pull this thing off?
Let’s start with the latest top-line numbers (via Quinnipiac University):

The Virginia governor's race is going down to the wire with
Democrat Terry McAuliffe clinging to a slight 45 - 41 percent likely
voter lead over Republican State Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, and 9
percent for Libertarian Party candidate Robert Sarvis, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

This compares to the results of an October 23 survey by
the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University, showing
McAuliffe up 46 - 39 percent, with Sarvis at 10 percent.
Today's survey shows that if Sarvis were not in the
race, McAuliffe would have 47 percent to 45 percent for Cuccinelli, too
close to call.

In the three-way matchup, 4 percent of likely
voters remain undecided and 7 percent of those who name a candidate say
there's a "good chance" they will change their mind in the next six
days.

The 795 LTR is a partnership between Marlin and the Appleseed Project,
optimizing a 795 for the course of fire taught at Appleseed events
nationwide. the rifle comes with Tech-Sights, two ten-round magazines, a
web sling, and a gift certificate good for a full weekend Appleseed
event.

Committee chairman Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich. got right to the point, declaring the Obamacare website is “still not working” as of this morning.

“It is the Verizon server that failed — not healthcare.gov” declared Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in testimony Wednesday morning before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

She was referring to outages this weekend and again Tuesday, but was compelled to say “I apologize” for the disastrous performance of the Obamcare website since it’s debut on Oct. 1.

Sebelius also made sure to note, “I was not involved in the design of the website.”

A Rochester-based company that makes firearms, ammunition and tactical
equipment is relocating its headquarters in Dorchester County, South
Carolina officials announced Monday.

The state Department of Commerce said that the $2.7 million investment
by American Tactical Imports, currently located on Airpark Drive, would
mean more than 100 new jobs for the Summerville area.

At its new South Carolina facilities, ATI is also setting up a
distribution center and a limited firearm assembly. The company is also
moving its customer service operations and sales office to the
Summerville site, officials said.

Two burglars greeted a Selmont couple returning home from work early
Saturday morning. In the exchange that ensued, one of the burglars was
shot and killed, while the other one escaped and is considered armed and
dangerous.

Sgt. Mike Grantham, with the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department, said
the couple returned to their Lowery Drive home around 2:30 a.m. Due to
the fact they have been the victims of burglaries before, the husband
entered the home first.

Grantham said when the wife came into the house, she noticed glass
from a glass door on the ground. It was then, Grantham said, the two
burglars came from the back of the house, one of them attacking the
husband.

“In the exchange, the husband was hit in the head and received a cut
on the hand. He then was able to retrieve a pistol he was carrying and
shot one of the burglars,” Grantham said. “The other suspect fled the
scene.”

He said the burglar who was shot was pronounced dead at the scene by responding authorities.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.